“The last few games I always tell him to do something out there,” Bertuzzi said. “Just get on his nerves. He laughs it off, then he scores two, so it works.”
Athanasiou explained the pregame routine as simply trying to push each other.
“We kind of joke around with each other, trying to get each other pumped up,” Athanasiou said. “Any time he goes out for a shift I’ll say, ‘Show me something’, and he’ll say, ‘Do something out there.’
“It’s a good way to kind of get us going and help the team.